Its good, but the zoom freature on my macbook air isn't all that great. very jerky. if i pinch a little nothing happens. If i do a slightly bigger pinch, it zooms way in or way out. very difficult to control finely.
I only use beta browsers to sift through sites that don't deal with sensitive data. Never make a beta browser your primary means of internet use, lest ye wish to be phished out the ass.
I tested it briefly and liked what I saw. I have 2 questions though. Are you able to keep private browsing as the default? It seems that I have to activate it every session on Safari 3. Also, I love how Firefox stores my logins and passwords. I like to be able to view them and they always seems to stay active. Does the new Safari allow this as well?
Can someone answer me whether they allow you to allow pop-ups from certain web domains now? That is what made it impossible for me to use Safari is that I visit web sites that load applications via a pop-up and Safari was worthless for those sites.
I have Opera, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and IE on my laptop, none of them are perfect or reliable to use all the time because some have features and work on websites others don't. Best all around so far is between Chrome and Firefox for me.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Chrome isn't cool, and Safari is worse still. I like the concepts behind Chrome, but it's so bug-riddled and prone to rendering errors that it's not worth using.
Safari is just so painfully slow. Once again Apple has added glitz and glam to the detriment of performance and function.
@BeautifulAgony: I'm actually using Chrome now and it's been working ok for the most part. Occasionally I'll get some random lockups to the point where I have to kill and relaunch it. So far it hasn't been enough of an annoyance for me to stop using it all together...
I also bounce between IE, Opera and Safari throughout the day.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: It's not terrible, and in many ways it beats IE, simply by speed alone, and sandboxing. But it's got these little bugs tha tmake it annoying tome, like losing radio buttons and checkboxes. I'm tired of having to go to my Start Bar, click properties, click "Ok" and then go back to my browser and switch tabs until they return.
Also, it has tendencies to get wierd with persistent login information, and pages that use lots of Java and Flash. Given its relative youth, it's rather good, but I certainly wouldn't consider it ready for public release. I'd be embarassed to call this a finished product, I would be hesitant to call it a stable beta.
@Inepsa: The sad, and inept thing, about Google Chrome, is that it actually has less funcionality than the Google Toolbar for IE!
How could Google have gimped its own browser!? It doesn't support auto-fill, editing bookmarks is a nightmare, you can't alter the layout or contents of your "home" page, and the "toolbar" is non-customizable in the most infuriating ways. At a time when virtually every aspect of software is becoming customized, Chrome is unforgivably and almost unusably retro in that regard.
Add to that that it has virtually no 3rd party support and it rapidly begins to look like a big failure for Google. It's not surprising they are taking potshots at MS, given that they evidently have no intent or capability of making a better browser. :(
@John Hardin: Here's me wondering if you're using windows or OS X. I'm thinking, and this is me a guy with no tech knowledge taking a shot in the dark, that maybe Safari 4 is optimized to run better on a mac, as opposed to windows.
But thats just me... I love it, its a great improvement over Safari 3.
Just when i zoom in, it zooms in fully and zooming out is just as bad. Thats the only problem i've encounterd.
@Closed captioning provided by Homerjay: my 'major complaint' and ultimately the reason why i reverted back to 3 was the tabs. WHY did they put the tabs at the top!!!??? the browser is just a bunch of fluff to me. i think i'm going to switch over ONLY if they move the tabs back down to the bottom and fix a few other little tiny gripes.
but as for it not being fast, WTF!!?? 4 is STUPID fast, like it slapped me AND my mom is the face before things loaded and i was like "WTF just happened? oh shit my page is loaded!!??"
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Safari is just so painfully slow. Once again Apple has added glitz and glam to the detriment of performance and function.
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I also bounce between IE, Opera and Safari throughout the day.
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Also, it has tendencies to get wierd with persistent login information, and pages that use lots of Java and Flash. Given its relative youth, it's rather good, but I certainly wouldn't consider it ready for public release. I'd be embarassed to call this a finished product, I would be hesitant to call it a stable beta.
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I really like the new Safari though. It looks great, and I have had no problems running it at all.
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How could Google have gimped its own browser!? It doesn't support auto-fill, editing bookmarks is a nightmare, you can't alter the layout or contents of your "home" page, and the "toolbar" is non-customizable in the most infuriating ways. At a time when virtually every aspect of software is becoming customized, Chrome is unforgivably and almost unusably retro in that regard.
Add to that that it has virtually no 3rd party support and it rapidly begins to look like a big failure for Google. It's not surprising they are taking potshots at MS, given that they evidently have no intent or capability of making a better browser. :(
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But thats just me... I love it, its a great improvement over Safari 3.
Just when i zoom in, it zooms in fully and zooming out is just as bad. Thats the only problem i've encounterd.
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but as for it not being fast, WTF!!?? 4 is STUPID fast, like it slapped me AND my mom is the face before things loaded and i was like "WTF just happened? oh shit my page is loaded!!??"
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